"I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems."

"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."

"Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy."

"Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger."

"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."

"I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'"

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."